When Delia O'Toole, now an aging music teacher, left the North Carolina mill village where she grew up, she thought she had left her troubled past behind. But her new friendship with young Kate, a college student from their hometown and granddaughter of Delia's childhood enemy, changes all that. Kate is injured in an auto accident that threatens to destroy her dreams. So when Delia is called back home because a loved one is near death, Kate goes with her. Once there, Delia fears that a tragic secret that she had hoped to hide will come to light, a secret that could threaten one of her most precious relationships and raise accusations of murder. Meanwhile, threat of a strike at the cotton mill turns neighbors against neighbors and sparks violence. How much strain can a friendship take and survive? And can you really start over, no matter how late in life? Kate and Delia struggle to resolve old issues in this sequel to "Tangled Threads."